Other names Fyodor Vaskovich Name Gordon Lyon | Role Programmer | |
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Residence Palo Alto, California, United States Books Nmap Network Scanning: Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning | ||
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Gordon Lyon (also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich) is a network security expert, open source programmer, writer, and hacker. He authored the open source Nmap Security Scanner and numerous books, web sites, and technical papers focusing on network security. Lyon is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and was Vice President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
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- David gordon lyon and the harvard semitic museum
- Face to Face Product Management with Gordon Lyon Adobe
- Personal life
- Opposition to grayware
- Web sites
- Published books
- Interviews
- Conferences
- References
Face to Face: Product Management with Gordon Lyon (Adobe)
Personal life
Lyon has been active in the network security community since the mid-1990s. His handle, Fyodor, was taken from Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Most of his programming is done in the C, C++, and Perl programming languages. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Opposition to grayware
In December 2011 Lyon published his strong dislike of the way Download.com started bundling grayware with their installation managers and concerns over the bundled software, causing many people to spread the post on social networks, and a few dozen media reports. The main problem is the confusion between Download.com-offered content and software offered by original authors; the accusations included deception as well as copyright and trademark violation.
Lyon has lost control of the Nmap Sourceforge page, with Sourceforge taking over the project's page and offering adware wrapped download bundles.
Web sites
Lyon maintains several network security web sites:
Published books
Lyon has written and co-authored several books:
Interviews
Public interviews with Lyon/Vaskovich have been posted by SecurityFocus, Slashdot, Zone-H, TuxJournal, Safemode, and Google. Many of these provide more personal details than his official bio page does.
Conferences
Lyon attends and speaks at many security conferences. He has presented at DEFCON, CanSecWest, FOSDEM, IT Security World, Security Masters' Dojo, ShmooCon, IT-Defense, SFOBug, and others.